Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring Strauss's vision to the theater, opera designers decked the cast in blazing costumes, filled the stage with striking Daliesque sets. Standouts of a superb cast were California-born Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis as a malevolent nurse and German Soprano Marianne Schech as the dyer's wife. Conductor Leopold Ludwig whipped his orchestra through the complex, luxuriant score with a fine sense of surging lyricism, a deft feel for the opera's shadow-flittery moods. "No matter what may happen to the Giants," glowed the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein, "San Francisco won the pennant Friday...
...production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week he was busy editing the film of Private Property, his first movie. Written and directed by Stevens, Property was produced in Stevens' own Hollywood backyard, has Stevens' actress wife (Kate Manx) as its star, cost only $60,000, and has already brought bids of more than $300,000-although the movie has yet to win Hollywood's Production Code seal of approval...
Beyond labeling Barzilay "undesirable," the government refused to explain the deportation. Explanation was unnecessary. Day after the South African Information Office called Barzilay's wife to ask if he worked for NBC, Minister Louw pointedly observed in a speech that NBC coverage of the Durban riots was "especially bad." When the deportation order followed in due course, Barzilay protested that at the time of the riots he was not even in the country. The government rejected his appeal, gave him ten days...
...Timer Graham was looking for small-time football. "I want to win as much as anyone," he said. "I even want to beat my wife at croquet. But football should be fun-even for the coach. It may sound corny, but I believe that line about 'it doesn't matter who wins or loses-it's how you play the game...
...story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall...